January 28, 2026

SPF Talks

with SecureRide Coalition

Wednesday,January 28, 2026 at 10:30 am CST

Bring your questions!

AUDIENCE: This SPF TALKS is intended for EVERYONE.

INVITATION: You are invited to a Zoom meeting on How do wheelchair users secure themselves in an autonomous vehicle safely and independently? The United Spinal Association’s SecureRide Coalition is tackling this challenge by bringing together automobile and wheelchair manufacturers, AV companies, disability advocates, and other stakeholders.

WHEN: January 28, 2026, Wednesday, 10:30 am Central Time

REGISTER: You must register in advance for this meeting: CLICK REGISTER BUTTON. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The SecureRide Coalition is led by United Spinal, General Motors and the National Coalition for Assistive and Rehab Technology (NCART). Coalition partnership provides outstanding engagement and collaboration with key stakeholders throughout the transportation sector and the wheelchair and wheelchair securement industry, impacting an organization’s goals both directly and strategically. SecureRide’s current focus is defining a wheelchair securement standard that is safe, automated, efficient and compatible across various modes of transportation. This includes wheelchair securement in autonomous vehicles. It will make universal access to health, work, and community engagement for wheelchair users more achievable. All of this means independence for the wheelchair user. SecureRide leverages a wide range of organizations with specific working knowledge of products, securement systems and requirements to fully develop, test and publish standards, and advocate for policies that support them. SecureRide’s Partnership program seeks to expand to organizations inclusive of the disability community and/or which provide support for improving accessible transportation solutions. This includes a broad ecosystem of support with disability and veteran’s advocacy groups and networks, research universities, certifying bodies and standards groups, Federal agencies, the current administration and the United States Congress. Partners will be invited to provide feedback from their membership on SecureRide initiatives, provide appropriate letters of support and generally participate in advocacy plans and events to amplify advocacy efforts.

Kent Keyser
Public Policy Fellow
United Spinal Association
1660 L Street NW, Suite 504
Washington, DC  20036